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Gore was a conservative Southern Democrat during his early career as a congressional representative. As late as the mid-1980s, his positions on gun control and abortion were to the right of his party. Though he once opposed Medicare-funding abortions, he now fully supports them...
What a difference a few years make. In the mid-1980s, a group of five "performers" attempted to do their best rendition of the Jackson Five's smash hit "Whatever you got, I want." But while the Jackson Five made a cameo on SNL during the seventies, this group, known as the "Keating Five" made a cameo in S&L--the savings and loan scandal. Yes, only about 10 years ago John McCain was brought before the Senate Disciplinary Committee for his role in the "Keating Five" scandal. McCain accepted about $112,000 from convicted white-collar felon Charles Keating...
...Harvard is fine, it creates a lot of business in all things because of Harvard people have more jobs," says Sylvester Mabry, who lived in the area for years until the mid-1980s and now works at the Charlesbank Cleansing store at 151 Putnam...
...TRANSGRESSION] A rash of injurious biting incidents since the mid-1980s...
...ability to make things work drew the attention in the mid-1980s of the Communist Party boss in Moscow, Boris Yeltsin. Luzhkov rose steadily under Yeltsin's benevolent shadow, and in 1992 was appointed mayor of Moscow. When the communist system collapsed, the city unceremoniously took over as much of the party's resources as it could. A corporation that is closely controlled by the mayor, Sistema ("the system"), now controls much of the capital's prime real estate, factories and construction firms, plus a media empire that includes a couple of TV stations. Luzhkov has described his blueprint...